Happy Seuss Day!

“Why fit in when you were born to stand out?” – Dr. Seuss

 

 

“Of liberty I would say that, in the whole plenitude of its extent, it is unobstructed action according to our will. But rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others.” – Thomas Jefferson

“Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.” – Lao Tzu

 ”Without music, life would be an error.”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“A person can be ignorant (not knowing some fact or idea) without being stupid (incapable of learning because of a basic mental deficiency). And those who say, “That’s an ignorant idea” when they mean “stupid idea” are expressing their own ignorance.”

- “Common Errors in English Usage” by Paul Brians

“If you’re going through hell, keep going.”
 - Winston Churchill

 

“There is, historically and persistently, a belief in us that y’all just can’t trust nobody who acts too smart or talks too good — in other words, somebody whose “general persona” indicates they may have once cracked a book or had a thought. Americans tend to believe common sense the exclusive province of humble folks without sheepskins on the wall or big words in their vocabularies.

I don’t mock those people. They are my parents, my family elders, members of my childhood church. I honor their native good sense, what mom called “mother wit.” But if it is insulting to condescend to them, it is equally insulting to mythologize them.”

- “Dear Sarah: Say it is so, run for president” by Leonard Pitts

Happy New Year!

“Farewell and good riddance you dirty old year
I wouldn’t give tuppence to keep you round here
But if I had the cost to stand two pints of beer
I’d drink to your never returnin’

If I’d been forewarned of your stealthy attacks
I’d turn you my shoulder and give you my back
At the base of my skull you could bury an axe
Then I’d quit all this grievin’ and yearnin’

Ah, but you’ve done your worst and yet here I still stand
I brush you aside with a wave of my hand
Now the hour is waning, a few grains of sand,
You’ll be gone the world still will be turnin’

Now your pretty young sister is welcome to stay
As fresh as a snowfall in January
But dispatch her we will some late December day,
Back to Daddy with cheeks and ears burnin’

Farewell and good riddance you dirty old year
I wouldn’t give tuppence to keep you round here
But if I had the cost to stand two pints of beer
I’d drink to your never returnin’”

- “The New Auld Lang Syne” by Jimmy Catlett

“Life is now” – Mike Oliveri
www.mikeywheels.com

 

“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity,
and I’m not sure about the former.”

Albert Einstein